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Exactly. The Shuttle is so incredibly ill-suited for that task that I'd wager the ISS would make a better escape vehicle from the Shuttle than the other way ar
by burgerbrain 15y ago
Exactly. The Shuttle is so incredibly ill-suited for that task that I'd wager the ISS would make a better escape vehicle from the Shuttle than the other way around.
Soyuz crafts on the other hand are bloody brilliant at the job. Their modern reentry safety record is unparalleled.
- adrianwaj 15y agoHave fun re-entering on the ISS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry
- burgerbrain 15y agoThat portion of my comment was very obviously tongue in cheek.
- bane 15y agoWelcome to HN, the "unfunniest place on the Internet".
- wisty 15y agoYeah. The problem is, for every joke you post somebody will have a counter-thrust they just have to post. I can't reply to every point. I don't have the breadth of knowledge. But I can and will reply to every joke, and there's hundreds of geeks just like me ;) Then every thread goes: Point, counter-point, joke, counter-joke, counter-counter-joke, "touche", guy who didn't get the joke, "whoosh", and then troll-war over how the site is becoming slashdot.
- redthrowaway 15y ago|troll-war over how the site is becoming reddit FTFY (preemptive notice: tongue firmly in cheek)
- burgerbrain 15y agoI've always found that slashdot's moderation system does a great job of handling that particular problem by allowing users to be modded "funny" in particular, making it not count for anything, and allowing users to add a moderation modifier to "funny" moderations (so you can redefine a +1 Funny to be effectively -1 Funny, if you wish).
- Zak 15y agoI know this was intended to be tongue in cheek, but aborting or interrupting a shuttle mission by docking with the ISS and, if required sending the crew back on a Soyuz or two is actually a reasonable response to certain mid-flight emergencies.
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